You don’t have to keep pushing through
You are allowed to slow down
You are welcome here
You don’t have to keep pushing through
You are allowed to slow down
You are welcome here
Welcome. I am glad you are here.
Twenty years ago, I started doing this work because I believed something that turned out to be true. People are more capable of healing than most of us have been taught to expect. And so are our nervous systems.
I still believe that. More than ever.
I am Andrew J. Heinz, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I have completed Intermediate III with Somatic Experiencing® International (SEI™) and am currently in my final year of advanced training. That matters to me because this work is not something I learned once and moved on from. I am still inside it. Still being shaped by it.
Over two decades of sitting with people in real pain, including addiction, grief that never got to land, and trauma that found a home in the body and stayed there, I have come to understand something no textbook fully captures. The body holds what the mind cannot process. When we learn to work with the body rather than around it, something shifts that does not shift any other way.
That is what somatic work is. Not a technique, but a different relationship with yourself.
I work with people who have tried things before. People who are thoughtful and self-aware and still feel stuck. Former athletes who know how to push through but have not learned how to come back to themselves. Professionals who have built what they were supposed to want and still feel like something essential is missing. People carrying grief or trauma that has quietly shaped their lives.
The people I work best with are not looking for more to analyze but are open to being guided into a more of a direct body-based experience where change can begin and hold.
If that resonates, you are in the right place.
Take a look around. There are articles, guides, interactive somatic practices, a nervous system check in tool, a self-assessment, and a free app you can add to your phone. All of it is here for you, whether or not we ever work together.
If you are looking for someone to walk with you through this, I would be honored to connect. I meet people where they are and support the work in a way that is steady and workable.
Andrew J. Heinz, MSW, LCSW, CCPT II, CGP, Intermediate III student Somatic Experiencing International
Serving Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, and the greater Denver area.
Most people who find their way here have already done a lot of work on themselves. They are not new to trying. What they have not yet found is something that reaches the places words alone cannot.
Relationships do not break all at once. They erode slowly, in patterns that both people are usually too close to see clearly. This work creates enough space to understand those patterns and find a different way through them.
Anxiety is not a character flaw. It is a nervous system doing what it learned to do. The work is not to eliminate it but to understand what it is protecting and help the system find a safer way to respond.
Whether you are carrying something from long ago or navigating something happening right now, you deserve care that meets you where you actually are. Not where you are supposed to be.
Most men are taught to manage, push through, and keep it together. That works until it doesn't. This is a space to be honest about what is actually happening, without judgment, and to build something more sustainable than sheer willpower.
Adolescence is genuinely hard, and the pressure young people face today is real. This work creates a space where they can be honest, be heard, and begin to understand themselves from the inside out.
Trauma does not live in the past. It lives in the body, in the nervous system, in wounds that never fully healed because they never fully had the chance to. This work helps you process what happened at the level where it actually lives.
Addiction is almost never about the substance. It is about what the substance is managing. This work gets underneath the behavior to the pain, the patterns, and the parts of yourself that have not yet found another way.
Grief does not follow a timeline and it does not always look like sadness. Sometimes it shows up as numbness, anger, restlessness, or a quiet sense that something essential is missing. This is a space to let it be what it actually is, without rushing toward the other side.
The body holds what the mind cannot always access. Somatic practice builds the capacity to listen to that, to work with the nervous system directly, and to develop a felt sense of safety that no amount of talking can fully create on its own.
Some people have spent years in therapy and still feel stuck. Others are new to this and sense that surface-level work will not be enough. What they have in common is that they are after something real, not just relief. This is for them.
Doing this work takes something out of you. Andrew offers support specifically for clinicians navigating the personal weight of the work, including vicarious trauma, burnout, and the particular grief of caring deeply about people you cannot fix.
This guide introduces four simple yet powerful practices: Orientation, Contact, Movement, and Grounding; with Breath as the integrator. Together, they form the “Four Pillars” of Somatic Foundations, offering a gentle and accessible pathway into safety, presence, and renewal.
This guide is designed for people who feel easily flooded by emotion — whether through anxiety, anger, or shutdown, and want a simple script to follow when safety breaks. It’s also helpful for couples who find themselves escalating quickly and need a shared language to pause and reconnect.
Download our free guide to explore four Foundational Somatic practices that nurture safety, balance, and renewal in the body.